Catalog
500 Dollars - Elizabeth II Disabled Persons, Piedfort
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara, as sculpted by Arnold Machin. The portrait occupies the central field with fine detail in the hair and drapery at the truncation. The circumferential legend reads EAST CARIBBEAN STATES · QUEEN ELIZABETH II, arranged around the full periphery of the coin. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issued this piedfort in 1981 as part of an international wave of commemorative programs tied to the United Nations' International Year of Disabled Persons. Piedfort production at this scale — double-thickness gold — was still relatively novel for Caribbean issuing authorities at the time, and the ECCB's participation signaled a deliberate effort to position the institution within the prestige commemorative market then dominated by European mints.
KM#P2 is one of the scarcer pieforts from this issuer, with surviving population data thin across the major grading services.